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Dolent vs Dolente - What's the difference?

dolent | dolente |

As an adjective dolent

is sad, sorrowful.

As an adverb dolente is

a direction in musical notation indicating that the piece should be played sorrowfully, as if the player were mourning.

dolent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Sad, sorrowful.
  • * 1874 ,
  • Poor wretch! who once hath paced that dolent city
    Shall pace it often, doomed beyond all pity,
    With horror ever deepening from the first.
  • * 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 148:
  • *:‘Did you find them all, Uncle Van?’ she inquired, sighing, laying her dolent head on his shoulder.
  • dolente

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (label) A direction in musical notation indicating that the piece should be played sorrowfully, as if the player were mourning.
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